The Merrimack Valley Camera Club (MVCC) will host and conduct the next annual George W. Glennie Nature Exhibition on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at the Trinitarian Congregational Church, Elm Street, North Andover, MA. This salon is open to all members of the New England Camera Club Council (NECCC), as well as other invited photographic organizations.
MVCC President and Chairperson of the 2008 salon, Charlie Burke, announced that the competition will continue using only digital images. He expressed the thought that the digital format would provide more organizations with a greater opportunity to participate in this showcase event of nature photography.
In 2007, the conversion to digital images resulted in a 25% increase in the number of clubs participating. It was also interesting to note that a significant number of members from the newly joined clubs earned awards. Charlie said that he is hopeful that even more organizations will give serious consideration to participating in this premier all-Nature interclub event. Further, any organization wishing assistance in preparing their submissions should feel free to contact him.
Each participating organization may submit 10 images, with no more than 2 by each maker. In the inadvertent event that images are submitted by 2 or more clubs by the same maker, the earliest entries will qualify for individual and club awards. The other entries will be judged but are ineligible for any awards, club or individual. Also ineligible are all slides and digital images that have received awards in previous Glennie salons and exhibitions.
Awards will be presented to those clubs receiving the 4 highest scores. The individual awards will include Best of Show, Best Animal, Best Bird, Best Botany, Best Insect or Arachnid, Best Landscape Best Seascape. Some categories may be sub-divided, dependent upon entry levels. A number of individual Honor Awards will also be presented, based on the level of submissions in each category.
Images may be submitted either by the Internet (e-mail) or on a CD. On-line registration will be available. Further information concerning entry fees, entry forms and mailing addresses will be provided at a later date.
Each digital image may have a maximum width of 1024 pixels and a maximum height of 768 pixels. The image must be submitted in JPEG (.jpg) format and the size is limited to no more than 1 Megabyte (MB). It is suggested that the image resolution be no greater the 100 pixels per inch (ppi) and that the color space be sRGB.
An image filename shall consist of the following: 4 alphanumeric characters indicating the camera club (each club may choose their own); followed immediately by a dash (-); followed immediately by a 2 digit number indicating the image number shown on the registration form; followed immediately by a dash (-); followed immediately the image title (with spaces filled in with underscores); followed immediately by a dash (-); followed immediately by the maker’s first and last name separated by an underscore. As an example, the following would be the image filename for the 4th image submitted by MVCC, with “Purple Fish” as the title and Charlie Burke as the maker.
MVCC-04-Purple_Fish-Charlie_Burke
Images may be submitted either by the Internet, e-mail or on a CD. The e-mail address is
due the size of files, it is recognized that two or more messages may be required. The non-returnable CD should be sent by postal mail to the Exhibition Chairperson’s address shown below. The submission closing date is March 22, 2008.
A club may register on-line, via e-mail or by postal mail. The on-line registration involves completing a number of information items; it is best, therefore, to have the information on-hand at the time the entries are being made. Entry forms (in MS Word and PDF format) are available from the MVCC web site (www.mvcameraclub.org). Completed MS Word entry forms should be sent, via e-mail (as an attachment), to the Exhibition Chairperson. The registration form, in either format, may also be stored on the CD containing the club’s images or included separately as a paper copy; the package should be sent to the address shown below.
The entry fee for a club is $15 US in cash, Postal Money Order, or by check drawn on a US bank, payable to the Merrimack Valley Camera Club and sent to the Exhibition Chairperson (address below).
The judges will be guided by the PSA definition of Nature. The following is a statement of the basic guidelines concerning Nature digital images:
No elements may be moved, cloned, added, deleted, rearranged, combined, or changed in any way that affects the integrity of the image content. No manipulation or modification is permitted except resizing, cropping, selective lightening or darkening, and restoration to the original color of the scene. No special effects filters can be added or applied, and any sharpening must appear natural.
Additional information and assistance may be obtained by contacting
Salon Chairman Charlie Burke at
. Charlie’s postal address is 106 Bonnydale Road, Leominster, MA 01453-3008, USA
